Joe Biden, who is to become US President in January, has picked Indian-American Neera Tanden, a controversial close confidante of the Clintons, to head the powerful White House Office of Management and Budget, according to several media reports....
US top health officials have called on Americans who had travelled during the recent Thanksgiving holiday to get tested for the novel coronavirus in an effort to contain its spread in the already worst-hit country....
Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious diseases expert, has warned that the US might witness a "surge upon a surge" of new coronavirus cases cases in the weeks after Thanksgiving due to cold weather and travel....
Takaka (Tasman, New Zealand) headquartered firm Mariposa Clothing has apologized and removed pants carrying images of Hindu deity Lord Ganesh, after Hindus protested calling it “highly inappropriateâ€. Tracey Brignole of Mariposa Clothing, in an email today to distinguished Hindu ...
US President-elect Joe Biden suffered "hairline fractures" on his foot while playing with one of his dogs on Saturday and may need a "walking boot for several weeks", a CT scan report has confirmed late Sunday evening....
New York City's Covid-19 infection rate on 7-day average has reached a new height of 3.9 per cent, compared with 3.64 percent reported one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio has tweeted....
US President-elect Joe Biden has named a seven member all-women team to lead the White House communications war room, headed by his campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield. This is the first time in American political history that the senior White House communications team will be entirely female. ...
Amid a continued resurgence of new Covid-19 cases, California authorities have moved San Francisco to the most restrictive 'Purple Tier' in its pandemic classification, forcing most indoor activities to close by Sunday and placing the city under curfew starting Monday night....
US consumers spent $9 billion online during the Black Friday sale, up by 21.6 per cent on a year ago. Smartphones alone accounted for $3.6 billion in sales -- up by 25.3 per cent over the last year as people stayed indoors during the pandemic....
Christina, a 74-year-old woman, only spent about five minutes buying a toaster oven at Macy's flagship store in New York city on Black Friday morning....
